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Oct.t 20, 1936. I D. E. PRIEST 2,058,107

' HACKSAW FRAME CONSTRUCTION Filed spt. 18, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ,Dwygjwf/ oct. 2o, 1936. D, E PRIEST 2,058,107

HAcKsAw FRAME CONSTRUCTION Filed Slept. 18, 1935 l 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Oct. 20, 1936 PATENT OFFICE I HACKSAW FRAME CONSTRUCTION .Dwight E. Priest, Worcester, Mass., assignor to Parker Wire Goods Company, Worcester, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application September 18,1935, Serial No. 41,113

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to hack saws and like devices, wherein the saw blade is removably mounted in anadjustable supporting and tensioning frame which is formed from wide flat metal members embraced by and united with othe metal members fof channel section.

The invention resides in a novel and highly useful fabrication, arrangement and assemblage of the parts constituting and associated with such a frame-by which to simplify its manufacture and to greatly reduce the number of parts required-at the same time providing a saw which is stronger, more durable and more satisfactory in operation than similar saws of this character now in ordinary use.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will `be apparent from the following detailed description Vof the same, taken in connection with the accompanyingy drawings, in Which Y v Fig. 1 is a View in side elevation, partly in section, of a hack saw having a construction that is typical more or less of the saws of the above type noW in ordinary use.

Fig, la is a fragmentary end view, partly in section, of the saw shown in Fig. l.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation illustrating one embodiment of my rimproved hack saw.

Fig. 2a is a fragmentary end view of parts shown in Fig. 2, but on a larger scale than Fig. 2.

- Figs. 3, 4 and-5 are detail views illustrating steps in the manufacture of the adjustable end member of my improved hack saw frame.

Figs and 7 'are detail views illustrating steps in themanufacture of thev other end member of Saidirame. Fig;` 8 is a view similar to Fig. 7, illustrating a modification of lthe invention.

Figj9 is a view in elevation'oi' one of `a pair of handle-'portionsadap'ted to be associated with the modi'ed construction shown by Fig. 8.

Fig. 10 is a large scale sectional view on theV line Iil--ID of Fig. 2.

. Fig.` 11 is a sectional gvew of the two-part handle.

vLike reference characters refer to like parts in the different iigures.

Referring first to Fig. l, showing a typical hack saw construction of the ,prior art, the saw frame proper, is of shallow inverted U form, being constituted by an intermediateA elongated member I, parallel to the saw blade 2 and of downwardly opening channel section, and by two upright members 3 and 4 of wide relatively flat stock, the latter for each ofthese members being bent or curved to provide substantially horizontal portions received in the 4channel of member I, and to provide substantially upright portions adapted to carryat their lower ends the devices Vfor securing and tensioning the saw blade 2 in said frame.

I In the Vtypical prior art construction shown by Fig. 1, the end members f3 and 4, though made of relatively light stock, give the frame the necessary rigidity, because of the flatwise disposition of said stock substantially in the plane of the frame. One of said members 3 has its horizontal portion secured :by rivets 5, 5, or the like, to the member I; the Yother member 4 has an adjustable mounting in the member I, to vary the length or span of the frame, and to adapt it to saw blades of diie'rent lengths; for this purpose, the horizontal portion of said member 4 is provided at its lower edge with a plurality of notches 6, 6, adapted to 'cooperate with a pin 1 extendingV across the member I'; before the saw blade is put in place, the member 4 can be moved in or out, as desired, to bring any selected notch B into engagement with pin 'I, thereby to make the length of the frame appropriate tothe length of `the blade which is to be u'sed therein.

The thinness of the stock used for members 3 and 4, coupled with the fact that they must have the flatwise dis-position above described, prevents the formation therein `of bearing holes or sockets to receive the blade-holding and tensioning devices; this necessitates the attachmentV to the lower endsof members 3 and '4 by riveting, welding, or the like, of suitable socket or bearing lmembers 8, 8, one to receive the relatively stationary bla'deehol'ding device 9, and the other `to receive the tensioning blade-holding device Ill. These two blade-holding or tensioning devices have pins I I, I I for engagement with the holes at the ends of the blade 2, and provide portions I2, l2, Fig. la, of square section where they pass through the square apertures provided by the bearing members 8, 8; this construction keeps the blade 2 from tilting or turning, and provides for the holding of the same in any one of four angular positions. The device 9 has the usual head or enlargement I3, adapted to be drawn against the adjacent bearing member 8, and the device IU isformed with a projecting threaded end I4, whereon is received a thumb nut I5 which is manipulated for the mounting or demounting of a blade and for putting the same under tension in the frame.

In a saw frame construction such as above de scribed, it is necessaryto unite to one of the members 3 or 4, by Welding, riveting, or the like,

' abiti-IED iii) a separate structure providing an operating handle or grip for the saw; as shown in Fig. 1, this structure may comprise a relatively deep channel member I6, the sides of which embrace and receive a considerable portion of the inner end member 3,-the parts being rigidly held together by a plurality of rivets |1, I1 or the like; at its other end, said channel member I6, not being of appropriate section or form to serve as a reinforcement or core for the grip or handle proper of the saw, must have Welded thereto a separate member 8 for this purpose and must also, usually, be reinforced at an intermediate pointf of its length against collapse by an interior weldedin strut or brace I9. As shown in Fig. 1, a suitable handle or grip 2|) of hard rubber, or like material, may be molded on the member |8, to embed the latter and a portion of the channel member I6,-this completing the assemblage of the very considerable number of parts above enumerated which have heretofore been considered necessary in the construction of a hack saw` of this type. My invention, among other things, very materially reduces the number of such parts, without essentially altering the character of the saw; as hereinafter more fully described, my invention eliminates for all practical purposes the cost of manufacture as Well as the cost of assemblage of such separate riveted-on or welded-on parts, or their equivalents, as are represented by the two socket members 8, 8, the channel member I6, the handle reinforcement member I8 and the strut or brace I9, all above referred to.v

Referring'now to Fig. 2, which illustrates my improved saw assembly, it will be noted that the saw blade 2 and its conventional holding and tensioning devices 9 and Ill have their mounting in a frame whose constituent parts in matters of stock dimension and section,bear a close resembance to the constituent parts of the frame of Figure 1. That is to say, my improved frame provides in parallel relation to the saw blade 2, an elongated channel section member 2|, the sides of which embrace and receive flatwise near each end the thin flat stock section of depending frame uprights 22 and 23. Referring now to Figs. 3, 4 and 5, the adjustable upright 22 (cor-f responding functionally to the upright 4 of Fig. l) is made, according to my invention, not from stock that is already of thin flat section, but preferably from a piece of Wire rod material 24, which is initially bent or curved to appropriate form, as shown in Fig. 3, and is then subjected to a pressing, rolling, or hammering operation by which to flatten out its horizontal portion 25 and also most of the length of its upright portion 26', as shown in Fig. 4. A nal pressing or hammering operation is availed of to flatten out, in a plane substantially at right angles to that of portions 25 and 26, the end portion 21 of this member, as shown in Fig. 5,-this flattened portion 21 thus presenting a stock section which is ample in width, in the transverse plane, to have formed therein a square hole or socket 28 directly receiving the adjustable tensioning device I 0,-- thus eliminating the necessity for attaching any gcket member (such as 8) to this frame upright Said upright 22 in its horizontal portion provides the usual notches 6', 6' for cooperation with a pin 29 of the channel member 2|. It Will be noted that the pin 29, unlike the pin 1 of Flg. l, is attached to said channel member 2| within the normal area of the latters sidesthus allowing said channel member to be made from standard stock and eliminating the necessity for the waste of stock and/or the additional labor or machine operation involved in the offset location of the pin 1, as shown in Fig. 1. I obtain the necessary lplay for the adjusting movements of member 22, with respect to the pin 29 in the illustrated location, by cutting away the base or bottom of the channel member 2|, as shown at 3U, Fig. 2; the material thus removed is the Vonly waste of stock that is involved in the manufacture of said channel member 2| from a strip `of standard width and thickness. Preferably also, as shown in Figs. 2 and 10, this channel vmember 2| is given additional stiffness and rigidity by pressing or otherwise forming in its sides the longitudinal ribs 3|, 3|.

The channel member 2| is made much longer than the channel member I (Fig. 1) of the prior frame construction, and this extra length is in the direction of the handle or grip 32, in which, as hereinafter more fully described, the inner end of said channel member is embedded. The inner or stationary frame upright 23, like the outer upright 22, is made, as shown in Fig. 6, from wire rod stock, which is appropriately bent to provide the intermediate substantially horlzontal portion 33 and the depending divergent portions 34 and 35. By suitable pressing or harnmering operations, the portion 33 and most of the length of portion 34 are attened out, as shown at 36, Fig. 7, and then the lower end 0f portion 34 is attened out in a plane at right angles to provide a portion 31, Fig. 7, which matches the flattened portion 21 of the other upright 22. This flattened end 31 of upright 23 is provided with a square aperture to receive directly the conventional stationary blade-holding and tensioning device 9', andvthis eliminates the need for the other attaching socket or bearing member 8 (Fig. 1), as employed in prior hack saw constructions.

It is to be noted that the horizontal portion 33 of member 23 is flattened out to flt snugly in the channel of member 2|, the parts being secured together by rivets 38, 38, or the like. The unflattened depending integral leg 35 of this member stands at such an angle to the horizontal portion 33 as to furnish a central core or reinforcement for the handle or grip 32, which may be molded in one piece from rubber or other appropriate material to embed said leg 35 and also the inner end of channel member 2| in the zone ofthe latters reception of the flat horizontal Vportion 33 of member 23. Thus my invention, by providing the inner upright with an integral extension that serves for handle reinforcement, does away with all need for such separate parts as the members I6, I8 and |9 appearing in the construction shown by Fig. 1, and with the expense of the operations required to attach said parts together and to the frame.

In the modified construction of the inner upright shown by Fig. 8, the depending leg 35 that provides the handle reinforcement is attened out by the same operation that attens the portions 33 and 34,-and suitable screw or rivet holes 39 are provided in said flattened handle reinforcement. This adapts the handle reinforcement to the attachment of a two-part handle, one of the halves of which is shown at 40 in Fig. 9. Each such handle half has a suitable interior recess 4I, the two recesses cooperating to provide a Space that snugly receives the flattened leg 35', Fig. 8. and the adjacent inner end portion of the channel member 2| where it receives and is attached to the rearward or inward bend of upright 23. These handle halves provide screw or rivet holes 42 registering with the holes 39 for the reception of suitable rivets or screws, not shown, which firmly unite the handle sections together and to the saw frame.

In my improved construction, whether it have the one-piece handle 32 of Fig. 2, or the twopiece handle whose construction is shown by Fig. 9, the handle is provided on an integral part of the frame itself, and thus is much more intimately and rigidly associated with the frame structure than is the handle 20 of Fig. 1, which is obliged to support the saw frame through the medium of a plurality of intermediate connected parts which are wholly eliminated in my improved construction. The latter thus materially simplies and reduces the cost of manufacture and assemblage of a hack saw ofthe type described.

Further, it is to be noted that my improved construction presents no exposed rivets or welds. The only welds or rivets required are those at 3B, 38 which secure the end member 23 to the channel member 2|, and by my improved construction and arrangement of parts, these points are so disposed as to be entirely covered by the handle 32 or by the handle 4U, 4U, as the case may be. In the usual frame construction as typified by Fig. 1, the fact that there are exposed points of welding or riveting necessitates the subjection of the assembled frame to a pickling operation before it can be plated with nickel or the like, since otherwise the discoloration from the heat applied in welding or riveting would result in non-uniformity of iinish in the completed structure. The expense of this pickling operation is wholly dispensed with, in the manufacture of my improved frame.

I am aware that it is not new in a saw frame construction, made of stock of wide at section in the plane of said frame, to twist such stock at the extremities of said frame into planes transverse to that of the saw frame in order to provide requisite bearing area for saw-blade attachment. Such twisting of the flat stock, as disclosed for example in Ladd Patent No. 595,315, December 14, 1897, greatly impairs the strength and stilness of the frame, and I make no claim to any such construction or mode of manufacture for saw frame members.

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent isz- 1. In a frame construction for hack saws and the like, the combination with a channel-section member substantially paralleling the saw blade, of a second member bent to provide two depending legs, one for the attachment of a saw blade retaining device and the other for the attachment of a handle, said first-mentioned leg, except at its extremity, being of relatively wide flat section in the plane of the saw frame and having a portion thereof received within and rigidly attached to said channel-section member, the eX- tremity of said leg being of relatively wide ilat section in a plane transverse to the saw frame plane, thereby to give sufcient Width of stock for an aperture in said leg extremity to receive the saw blade retaining device, the stock of said first-mentioned leg in the zone of transition between the respective wide fiat sections in said planes at right angles to each other being substantially without twist, whereby to maintain unimpaired the strength and stiffness of said leg,

and a handle embedding the other leg of said second frame member.

2. In a frame construction for hack saws and the like, the combination with a channel-section member substantially paralleling the saw blade, of a pair of end members, each with a portion received within said channel-section member and each with a depending leg portion adapted to carry a saw blade retaining device, each of said end members, except at the extremity of its depending leg, being of relatively wide at section in the plane of the saw frame, thereby to stiffen said frame in said plane, the leg extremity of each end member being of a relatively wide flat section substantially uniform with that of the remainder of said leg, but in a plane transverse to the saw frame plane, thereby to give sufficient width of stock for an aperture in said leg extremity to receive a saw blade retaining device, the stock of each end member in the zone of transition between the respective wide flat sections in said planes at right angles to each other being substantially Without twist, whereby to maintain unimpaired the strength and stiffness of said end member, and one of said end members being adjustable within said channel-section member and the other end member being rigidly attached to said channel-section member.

DWIGHT E. PRIEST. 

